A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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August 15th, 2022
Dear Colleagues,
Good news! We are now accepting registrations, and submissions for panels, abstracts and half/full day satellite workshops for CUGH2023 (see www.cugh2023.org). The deadline for submitting panels and abstracts is September 30, and November 30 for workshops.
For the first time the Berlin-based Inter-Academy Partnership (a coalition of national academies worldwide) will be running their regional World Health Summit at CUGH 2023 along with the Association of Academic Health Center’s annual Global Innovation Forum. This will be the first time these three organizations will congregate. It will be a unique opportunity to meet and engage representatives from national academies and leading academic health centers from around the world. Please join us in Washington DC, April 13-16, 2022 for this extraordinary event.
Also, Stellenbosch University, a valued CUGH member is holding an African Global Health Summit with us, October 28-30. They will also host virtual sessions. All are welcome but we are particularly encouraging African institutions to meet in Cape Town to share knowledge, learn, and build partnerships to address critical development challenges. The deadline to submit panels, abstracts and workshops for the Stellenbosch Conference is August 31st.
This newsletter is a rich collection of global health news, events, papers, funding and job opportunities. Please share it widely with your networks.
Best wishes,
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Keith Martin, MD, PC
Executive Director
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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Deadline: September 30, 2022
(CUGH Members Only) Deadline: September 30, 2022
In-person Satellite-Workshop Sessions: April 13, 2023
Virtual Satellite-Workshop Sessions: April 3-7, 2023
Deadline: November 30, 2022
This program will connect advisees and advisors to improve the quality of the advisee's abstract prior to submission for CUGH2023.
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Catalysing Global Health Innovations for Sustainable Development: This hybrid conference hosted by Stellenbosch University and CUGH is accepting registrations, and submissions for panels, abstracts and satellite sessions. Make a submission using this link: https://sucugh2022.co.za/submissions/
Please note the following deadlines:
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Final Submission Deadline: 31 August, 2022
- Results of application returned to authors: Generally within five weeks
- Conference registration completed for all accepted submissions: 15 September, 2022
- Full conference paper submission (after the event): 30 November, 2022
For Conference queries, please contact the Tygerberg International Secretariat at TIOinfo@sun.ac.za
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Apply to join CUGH's Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) or our Campus Representative Program. The TAC is composed of 25 student trainees in global health who advocate for and contribute student perspectives to CUGH’s activities. They help advance CUGH's mission and the needs of students worldwide.
Application deadline for the TAC is September 30th, 2022.
Campus Representatives form a global network of students interested in addressing global health challenges. They serve a critical liaison role, identifying & sharing the needs of students from their institution with CUGH; mobilize students at their institution around CUGH’s advocacy efforts; share their institution’s Global Health activities; and function as a link between their institution and members of the CUGH community.
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Everyone is invited to attend a free webinar on “Teaching Global Health to Undergraduate Students,” 1pm ET (4pm PT), September 20, 2022, by Prof. Kathryn H. Jacobsen and Prof. Caryl Waggett from CUGH’s Subcommittee on Master’s and Undergraduate Degrees in Global Health (SMUDGH). Register for the free webinar at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7586233732624563212?source=cugh.
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The ANNALS OF GLOBAL HEALTH (AOGH) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal focused on global health. It is a partner journal of CUGH. We are immensely grateful to its editor, Dr. Philip Landrigan, for providing opportunities for CUGH's members to share their research worldwide.
The Journal’s mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge of global health. Its goals are to improve the health and well-being of all people, advance health equity and promote wise stewardship of the earth’s environment.
The journal is supported by the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College. It was founded in 1934 by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine.
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The degree to which decolonization of global health will be successful depends on how the global health community in both the HICs and LMICs move forward to discuss these issues. Specifically, as part of a paradigm shift, attention needs to be paid to creating a more equal and equitable representation of researchers in LMICs in decision-making, leadership roles, authorship, and funding allocations. There needs to be agreement in defining basic principles of best practices for global partnership. This article by CUGH Research Committee members and colleagues, led by Dr. Madelon Finkel outlines important findings in this space. Read here.
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Noelle Haile, MBA a Senior Recruiter at Chemonics led a discussion on "How to Prepare for a Successful Job Interview" and highlighted topics, such as resume building, interviewing tips, salary negotiations & more.
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Commentaries from Low Resource Environments
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Information and communication technologies were considered early in the pandemic as key tools for combating COVID-19, but they are challenging to scale particularly in a low- and middle-income country like Malaysia. Read more about the barriers and a possible solution to this issue in the commentary from Adina Abdullah et al.
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If you are a scientist, researcher or implementer working in a low resource setting please send us a commentary that describes your observations, innovations, challenges and opportunities related to health, development, or the environment from your vantage point. Submissions should be between 500 to 800 words. You may also include videos that describe the issue. Some will be published in our newsletter and on www.cugh.org. Help us draw attention to these issues.
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Please see the recently released fourth installment of CSIS documentary series: 'Ukraine: The Human Price of War'. The video is 11 minutes long and can be watched here:
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In Miami, Florida, November 30th to December 2nd, 2022. Save the date and join us in person as experts explore the latest global health trends, challenges and opportunities. English and Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available. The event is hosted by the Global Health Consortium at Florida International University in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Wisconsin, and the Latin American Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (SLIPE).
Further information will be available in the coming weeks. If you have any questions, contact us at ghc@fiu.edu.
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Submissions are open for the 2023 Canada Gairdner Awards. These prizes honor excellence in research in biomedicine and global health. The Gairdner Awards are world-renowned for identifying current leaders and the future laureates of major awards.
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Launch: Health Inequality Monitoring Foundations eLearning course series
Health inequality monitoring provides critical evidence to determine who is being left behind, and inform equity-oriented changes to policies, programmes and practices. ‘Health Inequality Monitoring Foundations’ is a World Health Organization eLearning course series that will be available on the Health Inequality Monitoring channel of OpenWHO on September 12 2022. Register now for an informational webinar on the 14 September 2022 to introduce this course series: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hiOpQksFTu2oh1kILhyJ3A.
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MONKEYPOX RESOURCES FROM THE CORE GROUP
With graditude to Dr. Lisa Hilmi, Executive Director at the CORE Group for sharing this material with us.
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With the advent of Monkeypox as a health emergency causing widespread concern and confusion, ICAP wants to call your attention to two sources of evidenced-based insight and analysis about this developing health threat and what can be done to address it. Read more here.
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This New 8-week online course is designed by clinician-researchers for medical doctors seeking advanced postgraduate studies in travel medicine and health in mobile populations. The course provides a comprehensive overview of clinical travel medicine, including clinical management of imported, neglected, tropical and vector-borne diseases; pre-travel assessment; and the multidisciplinary approach to care for migrants and refugees in the European context. Learn more here.
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STUDY RECRUITMENT: EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES FOR DECOLONIZING GLOBAL HEALTH
Are you a study coordinator or faculty involved in educational approaches aimed at teaching health professionals and public health students about topics related to decolonizing global health? Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health would like to hear from you! These researchers are recruiting participants for a qualitative study to understand how global health programs in academic institutions are educating health professionals and public health students on concepts related to decolonizing global health.
The interviews would be up to an hour-long. If you are interested in participating please contact Musarrat Rahman mrahma28@jh.edu, with your name, institution, availability, and a brief description of your experience with educational approaches to decolonizing global health.
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The 13th International Conference on the Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Handbook in Toronto promotes health equity and aims to bring the health of mothers and their children to the forefront as, too often, social barriers make mothers feel invisible. The primary objectives of this meeting are to:
- Advocate for social cohesion through equitable holistic maternal and childcare around the globe
- Promote the implementation of the MCH Handbook as a global standard tool
- Support the needs of underprivileged families, including refugees, migrants, and ethnic minorities
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DHSA is seeking population health research proposals from students, faculty, or staff affiliated with any of DHSA’s member institutions. This is a ‘shark tank’ type event with real-time presentations, judging and awards!
This year, proposals are requested to have a Population Health focus on health disparities. Proposals may address any area of population health including but not limited to social determinants of health, environmental health, and behavioral and mental health.
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The Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenge: Scientific Advancements of Tomorrow invites innovators across the globe to submit potentially groundbreaking ideas or technologies that aim to enhance scientific progress across a range of focus areas. This will be the sixth in the series of annual Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenges. Enter the challenge.
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Jobs & Funding Opportunities
(see our new Jobs Board to see the latest listings)
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Do you know any graduate students or postdocs passionate about science policy and communication? Research!America recently launched our 2022-2023 Civic Engagement Microgrant Program which provides funding (grants ranging from $1,000 to $4,000) for student- and postdoc-led civic engagement projects.
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The University of Washington Global and Rural Health Fellowship is now accepting applications for Internal Medicine and Medicine-Pediatrics physicians who are interested in becoming leaders and experts in the fields of global and rural health. This Global and Rural Health Fellowship is a two year training program where fellows spend one year living and working with Native populations in Alaska and South Dakota and one year working abroad on medical education and/or research projects with University of Washington faculty and mentors. In addition to a weekly structured curriculum, fellows can also obtain a Master’s Degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine or attend tropical medicine courses. For more information, please contact Meryl Yang at meryly@uw.edu or go to https://globalhealth.washington.edu/academic-programs/residents-fellows/global-and-rural-health-fellowship.
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The Fogarty International Center at NIH offers funding to support global health research. Fogarty also offers a variety of resources for those seeking global health research funding across NIH, and from other organizations.
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The following three resources from Johns Hopkins University are continuously updated repositories of federal and private funding opportunities for individuals in various stages of their career.
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Featured Reading & Listening |
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The US declaration that monkeypox is a public health emergency, signals that the nation is stepping up its response. Read here.
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Global Health Journals & Newsletters |
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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